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Wednesday reading
Mar. 6th, 2013 12:40 pm• What are you currently reading?
Steamlust ebook from the library. After not one but two intros telling me how original and interesting it was, I had calibrated my expectations pretty low, but I'm still not feeling it. Stories so far include HARD DOMINEERING COCK attached to a guy with an intriguing mechanical arm (good) who is a creepy stalker obsessed with you (not at all good), and HARD DOMINEERING COCK attached to the guy who stole your engineering design (he dies now) but it's all because he wants to put your name on the patent... by marrying you and PATENTING IT HIMSELF (his dead body is cut into little bits and jumped on, after I throw up). The next one at least has a protagonist who has been with other women in the past, but at this point I'm sort of expecting that a wild penis appears.
Betrayer, which will henceforth be known as the one with the atevi chiropractor. (?!)
• What did you recently finish reading?
Deceiver, which actually had queer content, maybe; it did not map to any obvious category, which I guess is to be expected. During the whole "how do we get a non-putz heir for Geigi" sequence, we find that Geigi is rumored to be uninterested in young ladies, to the point of not getting an heir upon one himself even if quite necessary. He's also not interested in Bren, but one can't read too much into that: pretty hair vs. eons of evolution. More importantly, we've known for a while that he has a past thing of some kind with Ilisidi. So young ladies no, a very old lady yes (but when they had their thing, and what it was like, are not clear), human man no, atevi men ???. Very strong preference for older women? Recently asexual? Kinky aiji-dowager play time, perhaps with her associated young men? (That last sounds all kinds of plausible, actually.)
Midnight Blue-Light Special, Seanan McGuire. What is up with the titles in this series, ugh. This was a bit more intense than Discount Armageddon and had all the good things from it too. The character development seemed a little pat, but was pleasant. A win overall.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Well, The Legend of Bold Riley arrived this morning, I don't see how I can resist.
Steamlust ebook from the library. After not one but two intros telling me how original and interesting it was, I had calibrated my expectations pretty low, but I'm still not feeling it. Stories so far include HARD DOMINEERING COCK attached to a guy with an intriguing mechanical arm (good) who is a creepy stalker obsessed with you (not at all good), and HARD DOMINEERING COCK attached to the guy who stole your engineering design (he dies now) but it's all because he wants to put your name on the patent... by marrying you and PATENTING IT HIMSELF (his dead body is cut into little bits and jumped on, after I throw up). The next one at least has a protagonist who has been with other women in the past, but at this point I'm sort of expecting that a wild penis appears.
Betrayer, which will henceforth be known as the one with the atevi chiropractor. (?!)
• What did you recently finish reading?
Deceiver, which actually had queer content, maybe; it did not map to any obvious category, which I guess is to be expected. During the whole "how do we get a non-putz heir for Geigi" sequence, we find that Geigi is rumored to be uninterested in young ladies, to the point of not getting an heir upon one himself even if quite necessary. He's also not interested in Bren, but one can't read too much into that: pretty hair vs. eons of evolution. More importantly, we've known for a while that he has a past thing of some kind with Ilisidi. So young ladies no, a very old lady yes (but when they had their thing, and what it was like, are not clear), human man no, atevi men ???. Very strong preference for older women? Recently asexual? Kinky aiji-dowager play time, perhaps with her associated young men? (That last sounds all kinds of plausible, actually.)
Midnight Blue-Light Special, Seanan McGuire. What is up with the titles in this series, ugh. This was a bit more intense than Discount Armageddon and had all the good things from it too. The character development seemed a little pat, but was pleasant. A win overall.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Well, The Legend of Bold Riley arrived this morning, I don't see how I can resist.
